The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials have acted as Senior Responsible Officer for the Universal Credit project since 2010.
Esther McVey
Five officials have acted as Senior Responsible Officer for the Universal Credit project since 2010.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of homes in the UK served by fibre to the home broadband services.
Mr Edward Vaizey
Ofcom monitors and publishes broadband coverage data for the UK indicated in its 2013 UK fixed broadband market report that superfast broadband was available to 73% of UK premises. Ofcom did not, however, publish a separate figure for the number of homes with fibre to the home broadband services.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on the Jobcentre estate in 2012-13.
Mike Penning
It is not possible to provide a figure specifically for the delivery of Jobcentre business, as other parts of the Department, such as staff from the Corporate Centre, the Pensions Service and Child Maintenance Divisions are co-located in Jobcentre sites, and each business unit pays for their space proportionate to their occupancy.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been given a prognosis that engagement in work is unlikely in the longer term have been placed in the work-related activity group for employment and support allowance since October 2008.
Mike Penning
The information requested is shown in the table below:
Outcomes of functional assessments by prognosis of 2 years or more for the ESA work-related activity group, Great Britain: October 2008 – September 2013
|
WRAG: Claimants with a prognosis of 2 years or more |
|
|
New Claims – Initial assessment |
11,800 |
|
New Claims – Repeat assessment |
19,700 |
|
Incapacity Benefit Reassessments |
73,100 |
Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
2. The outcome recorded is the final DWP Decision Maker’s decision or the recommendation made by the Atos Healthcare Professional where the Decision Maker’s decision is not yet available.
3. The data presented above comes from benefit claims data held by the Department for Work and Pensions. It related to new and repeat ESA claims and Incapacity Benefit (IB) claims reassessments. In October 2008, ESA replaced IB for new claims. Starting with a trial in October 2010, and reaching a full scale national roll-out in April 2011, existing IB claims began to be phased out, with claimants reassessed to see if they qualify for ESA instead.
The reassessment of existing incapacity benefits claimants started in October 2010 with a trial in the Burnley and Aberdeen areas. These are included in the table.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-31.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding the European Social Fund will contribute to community work placement contracts in England for 2014-15.
Esther McVey
We have been allocated up to £60M in 2007-2013 ESF programme funding to help support people back into employment through community work placements.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much time someone enrolled on the new enterprise allowance spends with a mentor.
Esther McVey
The pre-start-up mentoring phase on the New Enterprise Allowance usually lasts for 8 weeks, although this can be extended to 12 in exceptional circumstances.
Post-start up mentoring support is also available throughout the first six months of trading.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding is currently allocated to the Youth Contract; and what proportion of that funding is allocated for wage incentives.
Esther McVey
Our 2014/15 budget allocation for Youth Contract is £183.75m, of which £42.55m is currently allocated to Wage Incentives (23.2%).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-05-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in budgeting loans was spent in each region of the UK in each of the last six years.
Steve Webb
Table 1 provides the Budgeting Loan expenditure in each region of Great Britain in the financial years from 2008/09 to 2013/14.
Information regarding annual expenditure for Social Fund schemes in Northern Ireland is a matter for Northern Ireland office and is not included in the figures below. Figures are therefore given for Great Britain and not the United Kingdom.
Table 1: Budgeting Loan expenditure by region between 2008/09 and 2013/14
|
Budgeting Loan Expenditure per Region (£ million) |
2008/09 |
2009/10 |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
|
East of England |
28.4 |
30.3 |
27.9 |
29.1 |
30.0 |
27.6 |
|
East Midlands |
30.4 |
34.8 |
33.1 |
33.2 |
34.2 |
30.5 |
|
London |
64.0 |
64.9 |
58.9 |
57.5 |
54.0 |
47.7 |
|
North East |
31.2 |
34.3 |
31.9 |
32.6 |
33.8 |
31.2 |
|
North West |
69.6 |
72.4 |
65.1 |
65.3 |
69.0 |
62.8 |
|
Scotland |
49.0 |
51.9 |
48.5 |
48.3 |
49.2 |
44.5 |
|
South East |
36.3 |
38.1 |
36.6 |
37.1 |
37.7 |
33.7 |
|
South West |
24.6 |
27.1 |
23.9 |
23.5 |
23.3 |
21.3 |
|
Wales |
28.7 |
30.8 |
27.9 |
27.8 |
28.3 |
26.9 |
|
West Midlands |
49.1 |
53.1 |
49.3 |
48.5 |
48.7 |
45.3 |
|
Yorkshire and the Humber |
43.5 |
44.4 |
43.0 |
44.6 |
47.1 |
44.7 |
|
Total |
454.9 |
482.3 |
445.9 |
447.5 |
455.3 |
416.3 |
Notes
1. The information provided is (internal)Management Information. Our preference is to answer all Parliamentary Questions using Official / National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official / National statistics, nor does it include the same depth of information. For example the MI does not include expenditure on applications which were processed clerically and have not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.
2. All figures have been rounded to the nearest £100,000. Figures may not sum due to rounding.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff will be employed in the specialist housing teams that will be established in univesral credit centres.
Esther McVey
A team exists to support current live service. This will expand as the rollout continues.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of employment opportunities resulting from the Commonwealth Games; and if he will make a statement.
Esther McVey
It is estimated by the Organising Committee, Glasgow 2014 Ltd, that up to 30,000 employment opportunities will be created by the Commonwealth Games.